£250

£250

These pictures are based on Ishihara's tests for colour blindness and contain a number which is only seen if aware of its existence. They are an attempt for us to be philosophical about ageing.

Any number, £70 - unframed if shipped/ framed if collected or local delivery

Isochromatic Birthday Pictures 30

These pictures are based on Ishihara's tests for colour blindness and contain a number which is only seen if aware of its existence. They are an attempt for us to be philosophical about ageing.

Any number, £70 - unframed if shipped/ framed if collected or local delivery

Isochromactic birthday pictures - for commission -60

These pictures are based on Ishihara's tests for colour blindness and contain a number which is only seen if aware of its existence. They are an attempt for us to be philosophical about ageing.

Any number, £70 - unframed if shipped/ framed if collected or local delivery

Colour mapping : Japan 2017

Works inspired by a journey through Japan exploring a changing colour palatte and using repurposed kimono silks as a medium.

Japan View

Some of the work in this series are pictures made out of vintage Japanese kimono silks. They become images and scenes altered by my memory of Japan. They incorportate three dimensional references to colour combinations and maintain an abstract quality somewhere between my response to Japan and the integrity of the beautiful fabrics incorporated within them.

Some of the works first displayed at WBAT October 2107

Colour mapping Japan - art dress

Inspired by a visit tothe Narukawa Museum in Hakone and its amazing display of natural pigments, I made a dress using some of these colours as a printed silk map of Japan. The dress is the key to the postcard size colour combination pictures which chart our journey from Tokyo to Kyoto, Takamatsu, Naoshima, Hiroshima, Hakone and then back to Tokyo.

Japanese view

Hakone Sulphur Mines

Hakone Sulphur Mines

Tokyo Teagarden

Tokyo Teagarden

Japanese Rose

Sakura/ Cherry Blossom

Field of Rice

This series of postcard sized pictures charts our Japanese journey through distilled colour combinations. They are reflections of the palatte we experienced and reference memory rather than literal depictions of moments/ places. The colour dots are 3D and, in the same way that printers test colours at the selvedge of fabrics, the dots are these colour moments.

Hiroshima White Bird

Station Bento Box

Shinkansen journey Tokyo to Kyoto

Shinkansen journey Tokyo to Kyoto 2

Downstairs at Benesse House

Naoshima Sea

Naoshima sands

Shinkansen journey Kyoto to Takamatsu

Tokyo taxi seat cover

Akasaka Salary Man

Akasaka Salary Man

Naoshima Nighttime Pumpkin

Miyajima Nighttime Walk (coastal)

Cherry Blossom / mapping

A Leaver's Dress 2017

A commission from the Holburne Museum in Bath with The Royal High School Bath as part of their A New Portrait for Bath project, to create an artwork inspired by the recent purchase of a portrait of Arthur Atherley by Thomas Lawrence. The resultant dress incorporated the hopes and fears of those leaving school in 2017.

Accompaniment to piece

Workshop given to explore school leavers' thoughts about the future

Outiline of the process

Initial fabrics chosen for piece, based on Lawrence's colour palatte

Students were given a needle case to thank them for taking part in the process, but also as item they could take with them into their new lives

The front in progress

The back in progress

in situ at The Holburne Museum

Ordinary time stole 2016

Ordinary time stole 2016

Commission for a vicar's stole featuring the lapwing

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A Few words 2016

A commission by Southmead Hospital to create a permanent artwork giving thanks to the families of those who have donated organs, and the thoughts of those who have receieved them.

News item for ITV about the installation of A Few Words at Southmead Hospital

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Particle Wave Duality 2016

Particle Wave Duality

Picture made for a private client with an expertise in The diffraction of light by ultrasound

Particle Wave Duality - in progress

Particle Wave Duality - in progress

Particle Wave Duality - in progress

Particle Wave Duality - in progress

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Particle Wave Duality

50cm x 60cm x 5cm

Made with silk satin/ silk organza on silk satin ground with entomological pins

Framed in acrylic frame

Invasive Species- Unintended Consequences I 2013

Unintended Consequences 2013

An exhibition for Touchstones Museum Rochdale exploring a range of invasive plant species imported by the Victorians and the impact they have made on our contemporary landscape

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Siberian Iris

A series of 9 pictures exploring the importation of horticultural specimens during the Victorian period. The ship prints are altered with thread and fabric to reference the way our landscape has become changed by the importation and sometimes infestation of these plants. They bring with them a spectrum of varieties and as such the pictures loosely reflect the colour spectrum.

Japanese Knotweed textile/ wallpaper

Knotweed wallpaper

Himalayan Balsam wallpaper

Invasion of the waterways

On the wall

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Spine 2011

Zip Vertebrae

A series of work exploring the spine and used to complement the production of Frankenspine and later Mayday by Theatre Damfino

Button Phobia 2009

Photographs of buttons were sent to a button phobic in order to examine which buttons she found most repellent. She cut up the photographs rearranged them in an order of repulsion and posted them back to me in the new order.

I began to research button phobics and found hundreds online- posting empathetic comments to each other, delighted that they had found fellow sufferers. On one it was estimated that 1:75,000 of us is a button phobic.

I found only one piece of clinical research which dealt with button phobia and its treatment:

Case Study: Disgust and a Specific Phobia of Buttons

Lissette M Saavedr MS abd Wendy K Silverman PhD

Journ. Am. Child and Adoles. Psychiatry Nov 2002

This study deals with the treatment of a 9 year old boy with a phobia of buttons. He developed his phobia after an incident while taking part in an art project involving buttons when he was 5. The button bowl on his teacher’s desk slipped as he reached into it and the buttons fell over him. Four years later the progressive distress he felt around buttons meant he was unable to dress himself and found it difficult to concentrate at school. The study interestingly differentiates between the reactions of disgust and fear in childhood phobias and charts an exposure based therapy which finally cures him of his phobia.

This picture is a direct representation of his initial distress at a range of buttons.

The smell and touch and sound of them is as distasteful as the sight of them.

Button Phobia title piece

Vintage French glass buttons on card with thread on vintage bed linen

50 x 50 cm

Before being made into a picture, the complete card with all its buttons was photographed and sent to a button phobic. Her response to the photograph was written down and Button Army is my response to hers.

A comment posted online by a sufferer. It became clear that button phobia is no respecter of gender or age and sufferers seem to come from all sections of society.

Fear of Coat Buttons

Vintage Vogue pattern, wool, buttons and thread on vintage bed linen

50 x 50cm

A comment posted online by a sufferer - a large number found that their phobia had developed in childhood although they had no recollection of what started it.

The Not So Bad

Vintage velvet, silk and glass buttons, thread on vintage bed linen

50 x 50 cm

Towards the end of the process I sent her a photograph of plastic and glass buttons via her mobile phone (I warned her they were coming) . She said she didn't find them too disgusting. I wondered whether the process had somehow helped her to address her phobia or whether the transparent nature of the material meant they were less 'present' and so less upsetting. She printed out the picture and sent it back with notes as they appear here.

Button Army

Silk, vintage French glass buttons and thread on vintage bed linen

50 x 50 cm

One of a series of pictures responding to the button phobic's specific comments about photographs of buttons she had been sent. Here she is responding to a photograph of the card of buttons seen in Button Phobia